Back Again?

Back in 1941 spruce, precise Lieut. General Delos Carleton Emmons was the top-ranking U.S. airman. He was commanding general of the GHQ Air Force, later headed the Air Force Combat Command.

Pearl Harbor, and Delos Emmons' ability as a crack administrative officer, abruptly changed the course of his career. General Emmons was sent to take over the Hawaiian Department from Lieut. General Walter Short, who was retired to await court-martial (and is still waiting). In a commendably short time Emmons reorganized the Islands' disorganized defenses, built innumerable airfields, carried out the Army's share of rebuilding Pearl Harbor as the U.S.'s anchor bastion in the Pacific Ocean.

When his job was done, Delos Emmons came home, took over another administrative job: the U.S. Western Defense Command (Pacific Coast).

Last week General Emmons moved on again. Ramrod-stiff Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, fresh from the command of the infantry school at Fort Benning, took over the bustling Pacific Coast, now safe from Jap attack. Delos Emmons' new job was kept a secret. Airmen wondered whether the Army Air Forces was going to get capable, pernickety General Emmons back again.

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